lynn bartels
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Bartels, Ciruli, Brown on what to watch for Tuesday (PODCAST)
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As campaigns go, this spring’s Denver municipal election has not lacked for interesting stories and intriguing topics. Start with a mayoral campaign in which Mayor Michael Hancock is facing some serious competition in his bid for a third term. Add several competitive city council races that have drawn an unusually large field of candidates. Factor…
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Q&A with Cody Wertz | ‘I do hope we stay purple … It keeps more people involved’
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Cody Wertz has spent plenty of his productive life working in the winner-take-all, zero-sum game of horse-race, partisan politics. Yet, the onetime messaging man for Democratic candidates and causes now finds his stride beyond the perennial partisan grudge match. As a co-founder of Denver public affairs firm Freestone Strategies, he advocates for a range of…
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Democratic AG hopeful asks Colo. Supreme Court to rule on petition battle
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Denver lawyer Brad Levin filed an appeal Thursday with the Colorado Supreme Court in an attempt to qualify for the Democrats’ June primary for attorney general. Following a hearing that stretched into the night on Wednesday, Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant ruled just hours before midnight that Levin hadn’t collected enough valid petition signatures…
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Lest we overlook all the local elections next week …
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…The Secretary of State’s Office’s Julia Sunny, writing for Lynn Bartels’s blog, offers a solid and helpful overview of the many candidates and issues facing voters on local ballots across this vast state of ours this coming Tuesday. From setting up local broadband service to allowing retail pot sales (state law allows local opt-in/opt-out), to…
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Some of Colorado’s rural county clerks have clocked a whole lot of years
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Out in Colorado’s vast rural reaches, finding a replacement for an experienced and knowledgeable county clerk ain’t easy. Unlike in the state’s metro areas, where there always seems to be a steady supply of upward-bound office seekers, there just aren’t that many people to begin with in farm and ranch communities in sparsely populated counties…
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Q&A with Hayle Johnson: In Jackson County, the election judge who tallies your vote may once have changed your diaper
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Give credit to Lynn Bartels at the Secretary of State’s Office for introducing us to Hayle Johnson, the longtime clerk and recorder in north-central Colorado’s rural Jackson County. After reading a blog post by Bartels about some of the unusual challenges Johnson faces in running a clerk’s office in the middle of a place like North…
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It’s Penry vs. Brophy — not at the Capitol but on the court …
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… and it’s actually their kids we’re talking about, not the dads; the dads remain birds of a political feather. Thanks are in order (yet again) to Secretary of State’s Office messenger in chief Lynn Bartels for keeping us apprised of some truly fun tangents off of Colorado politics. Like the fact that the sons…
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PHOTOS: Colorado Politics hosts party to celebrate launch of legislative session
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More than 150 politicos of all stripes packed the historic Carriage House at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion in Denver Wednesday night for a session-opening shindig thrown by Colorado Politics. Republicans rubbed shoulders with Democrats, toasting the young political news website and the nearly 120-year-old publication it incorporated last year. Vince Bzdek, editor of…
